Books: The Survivor

The S.S. Lulworth Hill, a freighter bound home for England via Cape Town
after delivering a cargo of bombs and aircraft engines to Alexandria,
was torpedoed by a German submarine on March 19, 1943, off the west
coast of central Africa. The ship's first officer and 13 crewmen
reached life rafts. Fifty days later, when a British destroyer steamed
into view, two men still lived. One survivor died shortly after the
rescue. The remaining man, who was the ship's carpenter, tells the
story.